My IT department bought a Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter license from Provantage and we were having trouble installing it; after closer investigation, it appears to be an HP OEM license and won't work on ...

When trying to add features in Windows 8.1 OEM by the configurationscreen option 'turn windows features on or off' a dialog wants me to enter the product license key.
I retrieved this key from my OS ...

This is an odd one to explain, bear with me.
We have a program, call it Program-A. We run this program on our Windows machines on behalf of customers, but each customer has their own license for it. ...

Is there any Public Domain (using the unlicense or something similar, not really relevant) app that sends files to the trash in OS X? There are a bunch of alternatives to this (example), but I need a ...

In our company, we use licensing USB dongle to control the license management. This dongle typically is plugged in to a server computer on the network.
Now some user asked if we have a solution to use ...

Is there any tool that can encrypt a whole disk and use a decrypt key based on the hardware of the machine?
My goal is to create anti-copy OS that can only run on a specific machine, if i change the ...

I am not too familiar with the software licensing and how this all works, but I have a question regarding Windows 7 and partially Office - generally Microsoft products. I have been asked to assist our ...

I am getting several new computers for my office. I want to install Microsoft Office and my proprietary software and all updates on a single PC and create a system image that will be copied to every ...

Some old information seems to imply that Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 is licensed for a single user, but I'm not sure this is actually so. When I read the Microsoft License Terms here, it ...

Can anyone please explain the differences between a Technet and 'MSDN O/S Subscription' ?
I have customers who use a range of different Microsoft operating systems and I want to be able to spin a VM ...

my question is quite legal not technical.
My old Samsung Laptop is dead. It comes with Windows XP Pro.
I want to know that, can i install that Windows XP to another PC.
Is it allowed?
Will there be ...

I installed an internet-purchased Windows 8 license ($40) in VMWare Player when it first came out because I wasn't sure I wanted to move from Windows 7. Now, I want to install Windows 8 on the main ...

If I have a Windows 7 COA Sticker on my PC... (it isnt specifically labeled Dell COA) Is it possible that I could use that same key on a totally different PC? My dell computer is outdated. I wanted ...

I am considering offering a service for my small business that will allow me to host a certain resource for my clients on my own network.
Problem is, they need occasional access to it, and it can't ...

If I have a VM running Windows 8 Consumer/Release Preview, am I allowed to take advantage of the Windows 8 upgrade offer, and install it on that machine?
I would have assumed not...as there was never ...

In Windows 8 it seems natural to me that each person in a family has their own Microsoft Account with which they log in.
If you pay for an app on the Windows Store, you can install that same app on ...

If I do a search for Windows 8 Professional x64 in my country, the only version I can find is having the code fqc-05955 and is labeled OEM.
If I perform same search on amazon.com, the only version I ...

Ever since the days of Windows 95, Microsoft has distinguished between an OEM license, an upgrade, and a full version. Here's the difference as I understand it:
Upgrade license: Requires you to own ...

Is there an option to enter an existing Windows 8 license key in the Upgrade Assistant?
I bought the License during my first try, but it got stuck at 62% when readying devices so I had to restore my ...

Will I be able to, and what is the worst that can happen to my laptop with the original OEM key. Will Microsoft invalid my key on both computers or not. And my brother did this for the other computer
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Have a slight licencing query i've been asked about and i'm not 100% on the advice i'm about to give...
Scenario: A clock-card machine running some software that makes it available to other people on ...

Is it possible to install a main server and install some sort of virtualization technology, pay one price for software such as Photoshop and let everyone user it?
Please explain to me why or why not
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Assume that I have a very very bad user (trying to use nice language) who loves to format his Windows drive once in a week. It's always the same hard drive and the same user.
So, how many times can ...

I searched a lot and there are resources which point to e-bay and others but all that is third party.
I would like to buy JUST THE KEY for Windows 7 NOT the media, so I can make the already working ...